The game is 2D, top-down, with pixels drawn by hand. Judging by the preliminary requirements, you won't need a monster GPU. But "2D" doesn't mean "runs on a microwave": there's plenty here to spend frames on.
Where the frames go
- Light. Flashlight, night, shadows, light through windows and doors inside houses.
- Tree canopies. They open up above you as you walk under them.
The infected and bandits are run by the server, same as hits and items. Your PC just draws the picture and the light.
Numbers. Preliminary requirements are on the main page, in the "Can your toaster run it" block. A ballpark, not a promise: nobody has run the game on lots of different hardware yet — there haven't been any tests. Exact numbers will come after the tests. We're targeting Windows, releasing on Steam.
The same block has a "Check my toaster" button: it asks your browser about cores, memory and graphics card and hands down a verdict. Browsers know little about hardware and hide half of what they know, so it's fortune-telling. But it comes with an achievement.
Help us early. Copy this and fill it in:
CPU:
Graphics card:
RAM:
OS:
Screen (resolution, Hz):
Desktop or laptop:
What the toaster said:
On Mac, Linux or Steam Deck? Post anyway. No promises, but we want to know how many of you there are.
And a question: if your hardware forces a choice, what do you give up — a smooth frame rate, or night with every shadow?